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Labour and Green Party almost level with National in latest poll

8 Aug, 2016 6:53pm

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Prime Minister John Key says next year's election will be tight - as a new poll shows Labour and the Green Party almost neck-and-neck with National. The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll has National falling 1.9 per cent to 45.1 per cent.

"We know every election is going to be tight - they have been the whole way through. If we could poll that number on election night 2017 we would probably be the Government."

In the preferred prime minister polling, Key was unchanged on 36.7 per cent.

Winston Peters fell 1.2 per cent to 10.9 per cent, with Little jumping 1.6 per cent to hit double-figures at 10.5 per cent.

Asked if the Government was doing enough to control the housing market, 75 per cent of respondents said "no", a drop of 1.4 per cent since the last poll in May. Twenty-two per cent thought enough was being done, up 2.5 per cent.

The poll of 1000 people was taken between July 22 and August 3 and has a margin of error of 3.1 per cent.